The Order of the Midnight Sun
It seems that during the Klondike gold rush, there was a group formed called the "Order of the Midnight Sun". They were disaffected American miners who cooked up a scheme to invade the Yukon, take it over and declare it a soverign nation. I did a quick surf to see what I could find, and came up with the following "this day in history":
November 20, 1901
North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) in the Yukon were on the alert after the threat of an American invasion spread throughout the Territory. It was rumoured that the Order of the Midnight Sun, a secret organization formed by disaffected American miners, planned to raise an invading force from surrounding communities in Alaska. On November 20, 1901, Canadian and American newspapers carried reports of the plot. NWMP detachments in the Yukon were strengthened with extra police officers, machine guns, and ammunition. By March of 1902, it was clear that the plot had fizzled out and there was no longer any danger of an invasion.
Even the CIA mentions it on their website...though they say there never was such a group or plan. But that's exactly what they would say isn't it...?
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